User talk:Lacrymology

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∞Who ?¿? 07:36, 3 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Lacrymology! First off, you can go to Wikipedia:Babel for more information about Babel templates on user pages; however, I see you've already got some up on your page. Second, there's no real way to build a "good" userpage- after all, it's your page and you can do whatever suits you. You may wish to look at Wikipedia:User page for more tips, but as for formatting a good user page, I would recommend just looking at other people's user pages, and when you see a format you like, use that format. (BTW, don't look at my user page... it's pretty disorganized and out-of-date...)

Next, the article on eBay is at Ebay because of technical limitations. The server/system automatically capitalizes the first letter of each title and removes any spaces in front. Thus, there is no eBay article- it displays at "Ebay", and you "_eBay" takes you to "Ebay", even though there is no redirect. In short, it is impossible thus far because of technical limitations.

I hope that helps you. If you have any other questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page (click the "A note?" link in my signature and edit that page), or ask the help desk. Once again, welcome to Wikipedia and happy-editing! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 22:42, 3 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, "_eBay" and " eBay" are the exact same thing- the system automatically converts spaces into underscores. For instance, if you type in User talk:Lacrymology in the search box and you hit "go", it takes you to this place. But if you look at your url address, it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/...User_talk:Lacrymology. That's why I beleive it is impossible to create a page called "_eBay" or " eBay", because 1) they are the exact same page and 2) the system automatically deletes the space or underscore. Just a caveat: I'm not a developer, and I may be wrong. Hope this helps! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 14:59, 4 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm... interesting. However, note that if you type either " eBay" or "_eBay" in the search bar, it automatically takes you to the Ebay article. I guess the only way to get to eBay is to link to it. I'm going to take the liberty of changing the page eBay into a redirect, just in case someone links to it. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 15:14, 4 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, if you type [[ eBay]] it automatically changes it to [[eBay]] . Hmm... the only way of getting to that article, it seems is to type in eBay ... so I'm going to change eBay into a redirect to Ebay. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 15:18, 4 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Can't exactly delete it yet, my RfA doesn't end until August 8th... anyways, I think it wouldn't hurt to redirect it to Ebay, and I'll leave a note on the discussion page. Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 15:21, 4 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've left a note on the page's discussion page. Thanks for your help! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 15:30, 4 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The Go wiki you were looking at was probably http://senseis.xmp.net/ . Matthew Woodcraft

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